What's the difference between pudgy and pungy?

Pudgy


Definition:

  • (a.) Short and fat or sturdy; dumpy; podgy; as, a short, pudgy little man; a pudgy little hand.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This bank of chromosome 7-derived microclones should provide molecular start points for the isolation of a variety of developmental loci of unknown gene product, including the pudgy locus.
  • (2) Several important loci map to this area, including the albino locus (c), pink-eye dilution (p), and the developmental mutant, pudgy (pu).
  • (3) His pudgy looks and weird haircut – which gave rise to the western media’s mocking nickname of “Fatboy Kim” – have led some to suggest he is not a serious person.
  • (4) In a typical recent Tory poster, the Labour leader, artificially made to look pudgy, is crudely superimposed against the door of 10 Downing Street with his arm around Alex Salmond.
  • (5) A small picture of a pudgy-fingered young woman in a lumpily-painted yellow shawl sold for £16.2m at a Sotheby's auction last night, a record price for the artist - although since the last Vermeer to be auctioned was more than 80 years ago, and there is never likely to be another, a record was no surprise.
  • (6) We present 2 cases with typical features including sparse, coarse and stubby, kinky hair, depigmented skin, pudgy face, arrow-shaped upper lip, hypotonia, Babinski signs bilaterally, profound psychomotor retardation with disability of head control or rolling over, and poorly controlled myoclonic jerks.
  • (7) The singer's love of animals did not inhibit his adjectival exuberance, which included sneering at the "pot-dog pudginess" of princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.
  • (8) All three clones studied map to the dissected region, and as such also show genetic linkage to the pudgy locus.
  • (9) Kim Jong Il's On the Art of the Cinema (1973) "What a wretched fate," Shin Sang-ok, now 77, remembers thinking after the meeting with the pudgy man in the grey Mao jacket.
  • (10) Well she's married to the pudgy heart-throb dynast Kim Jong-un , North Korea's new leader.
  • (11) Even today, with Layla pudgy and happy and starting to say words such as "kitty" and "baby", I worry about her health constantly and, at times, can feel myself starting to drift away from her.

Pungy


Definition:

  • (n.) A small sloop or shallop, or a large boat with sails.

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